Happy Birthday Mr Darwin!

1st visit

Saturday 10 February, 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

We walk through the rooms of the museum, accompanied by Michele Neri, who reads aloud from Viaggio di un naturalista intorno al mondo ( A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World) and chats with our resident Naturalist on the animals encountered by Darwin.

At the end of thevisiting itinerary, all participants have a chance to become naturalists for a day by doing observations, measurements and drawings of the animals and their skeletons on a special notebook provided by the Museum.

Where: Zoology 'La Specola', Via Romana 17 - Florence

2nd visit Sunday 11 February, 10:30 am - 12:00 noon Dialogue between paleontologists on the fossil species described by Darwin, in front of the Museum finds. Then the participants can perform the activity as a naturalist with the comparison between the skeletons of living and fossil species, with observations, performing other measures and drawings.